Eijsermans family tree » N.N. van der Sanden (1870)

Birthday December 1, 1870

• The temperature on December 1, 1870 was about -4.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• In the year 1870: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 25 » Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress.
  • February 27 » The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
  • March 1 » Marshal F. S. López dies during the Battle of Cerro Corá thus marking the end of the Paraguayan War.
  • July 15 » Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories.
  • August 18 » Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought.
  • October 7 » Franco-Prussian War: Léon Gambetta escapes the siege of Paris in a hot-air balloon.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1855 » John Evans, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania († 1943)
• 1869 » Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and critic († 1923)
• 1871 » Archie MacLaren, English cricketer († 1944)
• 1871 » George Howard Williams, American politician and attorney, United States Senator from Missouri († 1963)
• 1883 » Henry Cadbury, American historian, scholar, and academic († 1974)
• 1884 » Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter and etcher († 1976)